John Bruton

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.